Hi Randall,

My manager told me he disabled the short names generation, but I just tried adir again and got the same bad results. Does it have to be disabled not only on the server, but on the local PC as well?

>Hi again, Noami.
>
>>As I understood from this thread:
>>
>>1) If you're searching for *Mask*.Ext and you have shortnames generation enabled, you may receive
>>false positives. Bruce in his last message pointed to an article about registry setting to change
>>and Juri added another method to do this as well.
>>
>>2) If you're searching for *Mask*.* you may find Mask in the extension.
>>
>>Hopefully this summarizes this thread <g>.
>
>LOL! :^) :^). This is pretty much what I got out of it too, except that I thought I
>remembered reading a thread article that said there is a definite bug and a work
>around. For some strange reason, I still have this "you have to have at least this
>many files" stuck in my head or something. I wonder how this could have happened?
>(BIG GRIN!...just picking on you, Naomi! :^) :^)
>
>Seriously, I'm just glad to know that it's a bug and how to avoid the thing! :^)
>
>Best Regards,
>
>Randall